Tuohy was once a generational talent

Is that the current position? So Leachman will run 14:30 at Tuohy's age? Wiley will run 3:52 at Tuohy's age?

Thanks for not following the sport. High school girls distance progressions are not linear. Look at what the other 5000m record holders have run. Tuohy was a rare exception.

Thanks for following the sport. College to pro progression is not linear. Tuohy is washed up. But you will be back telling people how she beat that 14:22 5k runner named Valby back in the day. Amd she is so smart and so nice. She could be anything that sets her mind to!

Lol you’re such a loser, she has been very successful. How is it sad that people thought she was better when she literally was better? Yeah it’s easy now to look at people who are running faster, hindsight’s 20/20.

Yawn

Was she really? She always seemed like a grinder to me. At some point, grinders can’t keep up. Now Valby is the latest flavor of the month, but I don’t see where she has the room for her progression to continue into true world class level.

She'll be back. She had a great xc and indoor track campaign last year, a tough outdoor champs and a good xc season last fall but was off at nationals and has been out all indoors. With health, she'll do well outdoors as a pro.

One does not stop being a generational talent. That she is now consistently losing to athletes that were training less during high school says that she was never a generational talent.

smart??? depends on the classes she took, not over inflated gpa's which are the thing these days.

Huh? She essentially lost once to Valby twice in xc after beating her twice and was under the weather at nationals. Otherwise she is 3-0 on the track against her. So where is "consistently losing" coming from? And we will see how long Valby's act last. Either she is maxxed out in her training or something else is at play. Tuohy just has to fly slow and steady.

Valby's ability to get faster despite injuries is noticed in the NCAA.

Even Taylor Roe said in her interview that in her 'whole career' she 'has never seen anyone recover from injuries and get to peak fitness as quickly' as Valby does. That ability to recover so fast must mean Valby is the generational talent.

You are sooo close. What else could it mean?

I don’t know why posts like this are so popular. Yes, Tuohy will do well in life and so will 10 million other current college students.

So we have an athlete who:
1) Has an unnatural ability to recover from injury and achieve peak fitness quickly that no other college athlete exhibits, and even other athletes notice it and mention it;
2) Who shows zero natural fatigue despite massive efforts and never gets worn down like every other college athlete;
3) Who has had a major leap in her performance and now is running record breaking times seemingly with ease.
So, if we took a blind test and asked knowledgeable fans what these seems like, what should they say? Fascinating. Either she is an outright freak of nature or not. Time always tells.

That you are a jealous fanboy who can't accept that Valby may be clean and better than Tuohy.

She is not the US GOAT we were expecting. She still has a very good shot of making the Olympic team. I doubt she will come close to podium. Some girls mature faster than others. I think that is what we saw in her HS performance. In track distance, Monson is still the king in 5 & 10. So 2 spots left. If Valby runs post college, she has the second spot. And the rest will have to fight over for the spot 3.

What are you even talking about, Astro? All those folks you listed as running faster, by what measure?

Tuohy obtained a number of HS records, then a number of NCAA records.

Hell, here are just her NCAA records:

5K cross country
15:50.0
2022
Joe Piane Invitational

6K cross country
19:08.9
2022
ACC Cross Country Championships

1500 indoors
4:06.49*
2023
Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge

Mile indoors
4:24.26
2023
Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge

3000 indoors
8:35.20
2023
Millrose Games

5000 indoors
15:15.92
2022
Boston University Sharon Colyear Danville Season Opener

1500 outdoors
4:06.84
2022
ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships
5000 outdoors
15:03.12
2023
Sound Running On Track Fest

10,000 outdoors
32:56.75
2023
ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships

*Time en route to a longer distance

Stop trolling. Tuohy is still a generational talent. The other great thing about Tuohy has been her consistency, which hopefully means she's not bought into some of the worst aspects of female elite running—underfeeding, overtraining, weight watching, etc—but instead focuses on her fitness overall.

Her consistency, her minimal injury issue compared to many elites, seem to indicate a quality healthyness.

Also, just because Tuohy is a generational talent, doesn't mean others are not as well. Monson and Wiley and others are also great. They each have strengths the others do not. Valby is also pretty damn good, but her durability is not as high as Tuohy. (Both Valby and her coach have acknowledged her durability issues, which is one reason she cross trains—successfully—so much. Kudos to her and her team in finding ways to mitigate her durability issues.)

Also, why do you even care? Goodness—you not only post some idiotic screed against a pretty damn good runner, but you do it full of . . . not really lies, but idiocy. Ignorance.

Who hurt you?

Come on Astro, go get Elroy to take you for a walk or whatever they do.

Maybe it will burn off some of your impotent rage.

I bet you think Roman and Greek statutes were all white marble, and not painted, too.

Bless your little doggie heart.

(Can't wait to see how all the amazing US women's running talent in the pipe develops across the next two Olympic cycles! The women are bringing it! Just need the men to step up. Tokyo was embarrassing. Maybe that's why Astro has all that hateful angst . . .)

Funny how when most athletes disappear from the scene everyone starts to speculate that they are in some type of ban. But nobody has said that about Ms T

What team are you referring to in regard to Valby? By “podium” do you mean the Olympics? If so, she’s not alone among Americans in never getting close to the podium.